Marc Julia
Marc Julia (born October 23, 1922 in Paris ; † June 29, 2010 ) was a French chemist who mainly dealt with organic chemistry .
He was the son of mathematician Gaston Julia and grandson of Ernest Chausson . Julia studied from 1940 at the École normal supérieure (ENS) with the Agrégation in physics in 1946 and then researched for two years at Imperial College with Ian Heilbron . He then worked in Georges Dupont 's laboratory , where he received his doctorate in 1949 . From 1950 to 1957 he was employed at the École polytechnique (Chef de travaux pratique) and from 1957 to 1970 at the Pasteur Institute , where he was laboratory and department manager. In 1955 he became a lecturer ( Maître de conférences ). From 1963 until his retirement in 1992 professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris (later University of Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie ). At the same time he was director of the ENS chemistry laboratory from 1970 to 1992 .
The Julia olefination is named after him. He synthesized psilocin and lysergic acid , various terpenes and isoprene rubber . For Rhône-Poulenc he developed the industrial synthesis of vitamin A.
In 1986 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1990 he received the CNRS gold medal . In 1994 he received the Prix Gay-Lussac Humboldt . In 1977 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences , whose Prix Louis Bonneau he received in 1960. Further scientific awards were the Prix Parkin 1954 as well as their Prix Jecker and their Berthelot Medal 1973. 1966 and 1994 he was president of the French chemical society. In 1967 he received the Prix Albert de Monaco of the Academie de Medecine. 1988 was awarded the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize . He was an officer of the Legion of Honor , knight of the Palmes académiques and commander of the Ordre national du Mérite .
Fonts
- Les mécanismes électroniques en chimie organique , Gauthier Villars 1959
Web links
- Biography at the ENS (French)
- Literature by and about Marc Julia in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Marc Julia at academictree.org, accessed on February 15, 2018.
- ^ Biography at the Academie des Sciences, archive, French
- ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . tape 2010 , no. 1 , 2011, p. 58 .
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| SURNAME | Julia, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 2010 |